You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

October 2025 was the 3rd warmest October on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). This month was about 1.55°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. The last 12-months have been about 1.50°C above it. Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🛠️🧪🌊

Hey babe wake up. New periodic table of the elements just dropped

New photos of Jupiter from the #Juno spacecraft, including some from citizen scientists who who use JunoCam’s publicly available raw images to process into image products. #astronomy - www.popsci.com/science/jupi...

Holy moly did we get a close shave from an asteroid last week: it missed Earth by *230 km*! Barely above the atmosphere. OTOH it was only about the size of a beachball, so no worries either way. Meet 2025 UC11. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-wee-aste... 🔭🧪

I will also just remind you that NASA used to have a bunch of advisory committees that all would have raised the red flag on this... But we were all disbanded, along with most advisory panels, in the spring.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

The hed now reads "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace" and the dek reads "And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?" ✌🏾Conservative feminism✌🏾 is an oxymoron.

🌕💥 DOUBLE LUNAR IMPACT! Two asteroids slammed into the Moon last week—both caught by Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii. Traveling at 60,000 mph, the space rocks left fresh craters in the lunar soil, a reminder our serene neighbor is constantly under fire. 🔗

We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end. The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭

📷 This shimmering view from the ESA Euclid mission shows the dark cloud LDN 1641. Though nearly invisible to the human eye, Euclid’s infrared vision uncovers a rich landscape of gas, dust and dozens of newborn stars🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @ec-euclid.bsky.social

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Breaking: It’s a yes for Prop. 50. California voters approved the measure to temporarily suspend the state’s nonpartisan citizens redistricting commission until 2030. bit.ly/3WAJfhI 📝 @mayacmiller.bsky.social& @jeannereporter.bsky.social 📸 Ted Soqui

At some point, one of these dipshit billionaires is going to run the numbers and realize the gaping hole they're trying to fill with money and can instead be filled with the ecstatic love of millions by backing enormous wealth taxes that would still leave him richer than 50% of the world's nations.

Hey, so happy for you, NYC!

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

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Watching students play with magnets in lab. Turns college students into playful kids instantaneously. One of the simple joys in my life.

The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time." Line in the sand. It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit. Disrespectfully, the rest of us.

It’s the Winnieversary! We adopted this wild child one year ago today. Winnie came to us shy and skittish. It’s been fun watching her grow into a goofy, confident pup. Winnie is smart and athletic and energetic and clumsy. And she loves her sister, Amelia!

3I/ATLAS is behaving just as a comet should. No shenanigans. Looking forward to the possibility of JUICE (a European spacecraft heading eventually to Jupiter) observing this object in the coming weeks!

HiRISE 8K: The Vastness of the Dunes This impressive observation is near the North Pole of Mars, in a region known as Vastitas Borealis. Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2rC2F1c NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

Just stumbled across an astophotographer's timelapse reel of Comet Lemmon, and it clearly shows what we've done to the sky in the last 5 years A screenshot does not do it justice; the reel is on both fb and insta www.instagram.com/reel/DQcijH0... Credit: Lars Leber Photography, larsleber.com/info

We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger? ligo.org/science-summ... #O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

I love this. If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪

For nearly a decade, the JAXA Akatsuki mission has been investigating the bonkers climate of our neighbouring world 🛰️. But contact has been lost, and our last presence at Venus—the only other Earth-sized world we can visit—has now ended. My latest for Cosmos 🤸‍♂️🧪🔗: cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/our-last-pre...

You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:

Red Spider Nebula, caught by Webb 🕸️ 🕷️ Planetary nebulae like this cosmic creepy-crawly form when stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives, balloon into cool red giants & shed their outer layers 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🧪 🔭

A dead star has been spotted ripping a planet apart! “Something clearly disturbed this system long after the star’s death,” said co-investigator John Debes of the Space Telescope Science Institute. (1/4) 🔭 🧪 🧵

🔭 Two Tails of Comet Lemmon Image Credit: Massimo Penna star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

When I lived in AZ, Walmart was the largest employer and many of their employees qualified for government assistance. I would tell this to conservative relatives complaining about “welfare” and they would simply refuse to believe that stat. Corporate welfare never seems to count.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Algunas imágenes recientes con la SRU de la Juno #Juno Stellar Reference Unit #SRU Target: #JUPITER #IO ORBIT 69 70 71 planetarydata.jpl.nasa.gov/img/data/jun... NASA/JPL/SelexGalileo/j. Roger

China's Chang'e-6 sample-return mission discovered that the far side of the Moon is covered with fragments of carbonaceous, water-rich meteorites. Long ago, similar objects may have helped give Earth its oceans & delivered some of the raw materials for life. 🧪🔭 english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...

A reminder that Mercury is basically a giant, molten ball bearing in space.

Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam. Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rByidu 🔭🧪 Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj Proposal ID: 8975 Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Went to Broadview ICE today. All I'm gonna say is... what I want is for whistles & neighborhood lookouts & text chains & the rest not to be necessary. I want the war on us to stop. I want no one--except those who are doing this--to hear the racking sobs of someone whose loved one is inside Broadview

Awesome imagery captured two days ago by Curiosity, from its location within a trough of the boxwork structure. This is part of a larger, 360° Mastcam panorama. #Mars Oct. 21, 2025 - Sol 4695 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

I have been thinking about this part nonstop this is also about Melania not giving a shit about the role of First Lady. what’s she doing in that East Wing? nothing? of course he thinks it’s free real estate. of course he thinks the domain of wives can be trampled on to build more personal power

Whoever signed up to be the architects and builders for this project should face professional opprobrium

Always wanted to show it like this. You can just about see the sine wave which marks the boundary between the hexagon and the rest of the planet, though it's very subtle.

Let's unravel the mystery of Saturn's polar hexagon. A jet stream speeds around the pole at 320 km/h (200 mph). That’s common among planets, but what's not is that it oscillates up and down *very* stably. Each low point of this sine wave becomes a corner of a hexagon, when projected onto a sphere:

Emperor Palpatine xkcd.com/3157/

A US tech bro corp in the US has decided the night sky should go away. They've made that decision for everyone on Earth. Naturally they've named the first searing orbital array (many times brighter than the moon) after Eärendil, the light bearer, from Tolkien's work www.space.com/space-explor...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

My much beloved @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social has a new story out today!